Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Forty years after Roe v.

Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era.

A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.

An original investigation of Woolf''s ambivalent attitude to her Victorian past and the modernist present, first published in 2007.

A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton's critical reputation.

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany.

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A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.

This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880.

Considering a range of neglected material, this book provides a richer view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars.

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive.

Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person-through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour.

Die revolutionären Kunstbewegungen im ausgehenden 19.

This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as "e;Ugra,"e; meaning "e;extreme.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington.

From Love Story in 1970 to Prizes, his most recent bestseller, Erich Segal has created a body of fiction that testifies to the importance of traditional values and virtues in contemporary life.

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work.

Time matters to all of us.

Today, we do not expect a symptomatic reading to refer to bodily symptoms, or a literary dissection to be more than metaphorical.

For over thirty years, the Oxford C.

Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.

Originally published in 1985, this book traces the development of an ideal of work in English writing which runs parallel to that of the Protestant work ethic.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work.

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war.

This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.

Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le metro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language.

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics.

Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism.

Uwe Johnson bekundete Ende der 1960er Jahre, das Interesse an der Religion nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verloren zu haben und über keine religiösen Bindungen (mehr) zu verfügen.

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.